So you've heard that iOS 9 has just been released and you want to know whether you should upgrade
or not. Hey what is up guys, Gio here, and this is
everything you need to know about iOS 9.
So first of all, iOS 9 had the looks updated. The new OS by Apple sports the brand new San
Fransisco font, which they first used for the Apple Watch. The font is meant to improve
readability on mobile devices, and in my opinion it does it really well.
The new font comes accompanied by a completely new set of wallpapers: many of the old ones
have been replaced in favor of this new collection, but there's some pretty dope quality and color
in here. System apps and many icons have been redesigned
too: starting from the new Siri and up to the new Battery icon, every pre-installed
app has been visually refreshed. You've got the new Music app, new animations in the Mail
app, new folders in Photos and so on. Music is probably the app that got the most attention
from Apple: not only it looks much better, but it sports a whole lot of new features
from Apple Music, Radio and Connect to the improved queue and so on.
Apart from the old ones, Apple also included a couple of new system apps, with News being
my personal favorite: if you've ever used something like Flipboard, this is Apple's
way to do that. You've got a customizable news feed with a sleek design, an explore
tab, the possibility to navigate by magazine and a couple of other nifty features.
It looks good and it has everything you need, and I can see it being the only news reader
for lots of people. Another new interesting addition is the iCloud
Drive app, which you can enable in the iCloud settings and will allow you to manage your
files and folders on the Apple cloud service.
The major change in the looks of iOS 9 is definitely the new app switcher: the old view
has been replaced by this stack which definitely looks better, but where have I already seen
that? *cough*
Going on with the new features, Siri is now on steroids: apart from the new animations,
it is now much much more intelligent, it shows you more relevant content, and it's fully
integrated with the new Proactivity feature. Without going too much into detail, it's basically
an Apple version of Google now, which will show you relevant content and apps based on
your searches, time of the day, etc.
However, the major focus in iOS 9 was to improve battery life and performances, especially
in slower devices, but it seems like Apple completely forgot about that: on older devices
like my iPod Touch 5G, but also on the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2, iOS 9 not only doesn't
run faster, but possibly it runs slower. Basically it's the same thing we saw when
iOS 8 came out, replacing the really fast iOS 7: eventually iOS 8 came to a point where
it was really stable and really fast, and that will hopefully happen with iOS 9 too.
However as for newer devices, performances and battery life do seem to improve a bit,
but nothing noteworthy there too. Something actually exclusive to the latest
iPads are the new split-screen mode and Picture-in-Picture mode to have multiple apps on the screen at
the same time.
A couple of words about the update itself: iOS 9 will be available for every device that
runs iOS 8, and that means every iPhone from the 4S, every iPad but the first and the iPod
Touch 5G and 6G. Something welcome about iOS 9 is that from now on every subsequent update
should take much less space than they used to, and you should also get some free storage
after the update.
So at the end of the day, should you update? If you're on a device older than the iPhone
5S, the answer is no: it won't bring any relevant improvement, and it could even make your everyday
experience worse. On the other hand, if you're on a recent device
and you want to try some new nifty features, there's no reason why you shouldn't.
Hopefully that covered all of the most important features, but again for more in detail infos
check the links right below that like button. Thank you so much for watching, and I'll catch
you guys in the next one!